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  1. What if the device has been used a lot, but the majority of uses are clearly illegal? For example, snooping on political enemies.

    The logs would have been purged of the illegal uses, leaving only a small number of occasions that the device would have been used legally.

  2. Re:I thought diesel ran cleaner on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. But they consume no more when wide open.

    Which is an insignificant proportion of the time the engine is running.

    You are trying to divert from my central point which is that diesel engines produce more exhaust gasses at normal cruising speeds.

  3. Re:I thought diesel ran cleaner on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Expanding isn't "reacting to heat".

    The amount of NOx produced should be very small and, obviously, it takes other things than heat to produce NOx: like oxygen.

    But, back to the original point: Diesel engines take in much more atmospheric air than gasoline engines when running at normal loads (highway cruising). Hence, since the majority of the nitrogen (and some of the oxygen) passes through almost unchanged, the amount of exhaust gas that a diesel engine produces is much greater at normal load than the exhaust gasses of a gasoline engine at similar load.

  4. Re:I thought diesel ran cleaner on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nitrogen doesn't react to heat? Amazing!

    Facepalm!

    Any time you spent in physics and chemistry classes was wasted on you, wasn't it?

  5. Re:I thought diesel ran cleaner on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Under low loads, Diesels don't use all the air they take in. Some of the exhaust is unreacted input oxygen.

    Don't forget that air is mostly Nitrogen, which should pass through unchanged, in addition to the unreacted oxygen.

  6. Re:I thought diesel ran cleaner on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Please read before replying.

    Really, you are going to go there?

    What do you think happens to the nitrogen intake to the engine?
    What do you think happens to the oxygen intake that is not used in combustion?

    Would you like me to tell you about my AT185. or my OM617.951A?

    OMG, you know the part number for your engines. That must make you an expert on diesel engines. Wow, I bow to your knowledge. </sarcasm>

  7. Re:I thought diesel ran cleaner on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    because it's important: exhaust gas volume is proportional to load.

    Gasoline engines, yes, Diesel, no. As I posted elsewhere, Diesel engines have something closer to a fixed air intake on each revolution, irrespective of load.

    Remember that Diesel engines use compression ignition and, without sufficient air, there is insufficient compression to ignite the fuel.

  8. Re:I thought diesel ran cleaner on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My 3.0L V6 diesel truck cruises at 65 MPHat 1550 RPM. My 3.2L V6 gas car cruises at 65 MPH at 1800 RPM. 7% higher engine displacement, 16% higher RPM, so 23.9% more airflow volume at the same speed.

    Your understanding of how diesel engines work is rather poor. Diesel engines don't have throttles, there is no variable control on air intake; power output is controlled by controlling input fuel (not input fuel/air mixture like a gas engine). So, generally more air will flow through a diesel engine than a similar sized gas engine (unless the gas engine is operating at WOT condition).

    Turbocharging the diesel engine will result in even more airflow through the engine.

  9. Re:It's OVH on Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    I would not expect a lot of real CPU for $12/month. It works for me (small mail/web server, VPN endpoint, etc.).

    If I were relying on a machine for work, it would probably be better to pay for a dedicated machine, or to install my own hardware in a datacenter.

    The problems I have seen have been the time when they started shutting down the infrastructure and one class of VMs. I only found out because I noted that the RDNS wasn't working. They claimed that they had sent me an email telling me that I needed to migrate to a new VM, but they had not sent emails to me about this.

  10. Get a grip!! Seriously. Go back and READ what I wrote.

    I was attacking your analysis because it showed Obama in a worse light than is true.

    I was pointing out that Obama's numbers are better than your original, incorrect analysis.

    I was pointing out that the economy tanked during Bush Jr's term, so that unemployment was far worse at the beginning of Obama's term than the figures that you had erroneously cited.

    You think that I am attempting to attack Obama's record. I'm not.

  11. What are you trying to say?

    U6 dropped significantly under Obama. That is a good thing.

    In no way was I trying to indicate that Obama did worse than your wrong numbers indicated.

  12. Re:It's OVH on Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're paying less than $20/mo for a VPS, you're shafted.

    I have a VPS that costs me $12/month. It's a full KVM VPS. No hosting mods whatsoever. I control the kernel and all the packages on it.

  13. The parent has been modded up, yet every number in it is wrong or irrelevant because the parent poster thinks that Obama was inaugurated in January 2008, when in fact, it was an entire year later.

    2008 was a year when the economy really tanked. All of parent's figures reflect the very bad last year of Bush Jr's term.

    It should be modded down, not up.

  14. Re:That can't be right on US Economy Added 178,000 Jobs in November; Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.6 Percent (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even so, U-6 is 0.1% higher today than in January of 2008.

    And your point is? Obama did not become President until January 2009. U6 rose sharply during 2008.

  15. US chocolate brands are absolutely awful and sweet.

    What nationality do you consider Ghiradelli to have?

  16. Hershey's is something almost but not completely unlike chocolate.

    (Hey, I grew up on Nestles and Cadbury, both in England and Canada.)

    Cadbury is heading the same way.

  17. The answer is simple.

    Decades ago, when they were legalizing alcohol, marijuana was the drug of choice for African Americans.

    The policy was driven by racism.

  18. "Windows Phone satisfies my extremely limited demands for a phone, therefore it will be supported in the future."

    FTFY.

    People want banking apps. Many (or perhaps most) banks don't support Windows Phone.

    People want games. Most games are not on Windows Phone.

    Etc.. There are many "must-haves" that are not available on Windows Phone. When even Microsoft does not port its own apps to Windows Phone, you have to see that the platform is being abandoned.

    Android and iPhone do everything people want from a phone. The ship has sailed and Windows Phone was left behind.

  19. Re:Don't give him ideas on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    You can turn off Amber Alerts on Android.

    How you do it depends on what version of Android. Under Marshmallow, you open the messaging app, then open "Settings", "More" (under "ADVANCED SETTINGS"), then you will see "Emergency alerts". Under that option you can turn off Amber Alerts.

  20. Re:Hard specs, please. on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    I recall hearing a calculation on the radio: if we keep expanding our energy use at the present rate, in 2000 years, we will need more energy than all the stars in our galaxy produce.

  21. Re:At least Trump may actually do some good on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You are either young, stupid or a troll. Possibly all three.

    He is at least two out of those three, which is why he is in "Foes" list.

  22. Re:At least Trump may actually do some good on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    His proposed tax plan pretty much only reduces taxes for the super rich.

    Plenty of middle-class people will see their taxes increase. I am looking forward to the squealing of the Trump voters as they realize that they are paying for the ultra-wealthy to get a tax cut.

  23. In the United States it would be sales tax or transaction tax.

    While VAT has some similarities to sales taxes, it also has some fundamental differences. With a VAT scheme, the total tax on something that is sold at a retail outlet is collected at every stage at which "value" is added. With a sales tax, the total tax is collected when something is sold. By collected, I mean actually sent to the relevant tax authority (in a VAT scheme, the taxes collected from the customer at the point of sale and the taxes sent to the tax authority are different).

    The UK cannot compel a business in Hong Kong to play sales tax to it.

    Correct, but the importer can be compelled to pay the taxes.

    Since the UK factors tax in when prices are listed

    Again, not strictly true. Goods that are intended for sale to retail customers must include the tax. Goods where the intended customers are VAT-registered businesses may list a pre-VAT price.

  24. Re:Why, does it work properly now? on Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Have they fixed the screen sharing? Instead of including features that are no longer necessary, how about making existing features work?

  25. Re:Electoral college does reflect the popular vote on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't the House of Representatives, it's the Senate and the Electoral College where the problem lies.

    Perhaps there is something in between what we have today and a system that would provide representation that is completely proportional to population.